Summer and winter hours? 1907, already in JSH!
Once upon a time, the time change! In 2017 we were even talking about a possible last time. The TV journalist Nicolas Rossé had challenged me on this topic, in…
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October 10 in 2020, the first World watchmaking day?
Today is the 10th of October 2020, and it’ s 10.10 am. That’ s the time I chose to share with you a crazy dream: what if, starting from the…
Geneva Watch Shows: are ‘other’ brands prohibited at Palexpo? What if the reason were juridical?
On May 7, 2020, on my Linkedin profile, the bomb was posted. It took a confined summer before it exploded in September, on the national television RTS and on the…
EPHJ 2019: Singer 100 years with a book
“Few are aware of the amount of skill and ability that goes on in the silence of the workshops,” explains Jean-Claude Engisch, father of Joris, the current director of Singer…
Amazing: it was Louis Moinet who invented the chronograph!
March 21, 2013 (first posted). Incredible! Imagine if a video was released of a man walking on the moon ten years before Neil Armstrong and that the scientists of Houston…
2013, MCH’s flop. Lausannetec cancelled! The market has (finally) chosen
René Kamm, CEO de MCH et Baselworld, prévoyait “doubler” l’EPHJ avec la lancement à Beaulieu d’un salon concurrent Initially scheduled from May 28 to 31, 2013, the 2nd edition of…
ArtyA, shooting live bullets in the luxury target
February 2013. Inspired by a street culture that transforms its unique pieces into real happenings, Yvan Arpa ventures an improbable wedding: high-end watches and firearms. Yvan Arpa détourne les…
Günter Blümlein, tribute and memory
Soon in Geneva in January, the SIHH 2013. Which is largely thanks to one man. Flash back. In 1980, two companies had no idea what they would become. IWC and…
How Geneva buried its world unique watch museum
{Published on 20 December 2011} Genevanities. At a time when a remarkable watchmaking exhibition was transforming the Rath Museum into a showcase of “Gold and Enamel Treasures” until April 29,…
Audemars Piguet and Montreux Sounds Digital Project
One might have thought that when it comes to communications, everything to do with the Montreux Jazz Festival and Claude Nobs was the preserve of Parmigiani Fleurier. Well, almost everything,…
Le cadran, par le Dr. Helmut CROTT
The work of a lifetime, the book “Le Cadran” by Dr. Helmut Crott (edited by Joël A. Grandjean), the history of the dial in the 20th century, the prestigious history of the Stern dials and of a family that took over the Patek Philippe brand
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